Technology has become the architect of our intimacies.

Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But, as MIT technology and society specialist, Sherry Turkle argues, this relentless connection leads to a new solitude. As technology ramps up, our emotional lives ramp down. Alone Together is the result of Turkles nearly fteen-year exploration of our lives on the digital terrain. Based on hundreds of interviews, it describes new, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, parents, and children, and new instabilities in how we understand privacy and community, intimacy and solitude.

Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But, as MIT technology and society specialist, Sherry Turkle argues, this relentless connection leads to a new solitude. As technology ramps up, our emotional lives ramp down. Alone Together is the result of Turkles nearly fteen-year exploration of our lives on the digital terrain. Based on hundreds of interviews, it describes new, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, parents, and children, and new instabilities in how we understand privacy and community, intimacy and solitude.

Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But, as MIT technology and society specialist, Sherry Turkle argues, this relentless connection leads to a new solitude. As technology ramps up, our emotional lives ramp down. Alone Together is the result of Turkles nearly fteen-year exploration of our lives on the digital terrain. Based on hundreds of interviews, it describes new, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, parents, and children, and new instabilities in how we understand privacy and community, intimacy and solitude.

Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But, as MIT technology and society specialist, Sherry Turkle argues, this relentless connection leads to a new solitude. As technology ramps up, our emotional lives ramp down. Alone Together is the result of Turkles nearly fteen-year exploration of our lives on the digital terrain. Based on hundreds of interviews, it describes new, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, parents, and children, and new instabilities in how we understand privacy and community, intimacy and solitude.

Join us for a panel & discussion on Thursday, May 8th, 4pm at M State-Fergus Falls (1414 College Way) to discuss Part Two Networked: In Intimacy, New Solitudes of the book: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other by Sherry Turkle. To further stimulate discussion, a 20-minute TED Talk by Sherry Turkle will also be shown: http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_ turkle_alone_together. Light refreshments will be served.

Join us for a panel & discussion on Thursday, May 8th, 4pm at M State-Fergus Falls (1414 College Way) to discuss Part Two Networked: In Intimacy, New Solitudes of the book: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other by Sherry Turkle. To further stimulate discussion, a 20-minute TED Talk by Sherry Turkle will also be shown: http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_ turkle_alone_together. Light refreshments will be served.

Join us for a panel & discussion on Thursday, May 8th, 4pm at M State-Fergus Falls (1414 College Way) to discuss Part Two Networked: In Intimacy, New Solitudes of the book: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other by Sherry Turkle. To further stimulate discussion, a 20-minute TED Talk by Sherry Turkle will also be shown: http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_ turkle_alone_together. Light refreshments will be served.

Join us for a panel & discussion on Thursday, May 8th, 4pm at M State-Fergus Falls (1414 College Way) to discuss Part Two Networked: In Intimacy, New Solitudes of the book: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other by Sherry Turkle. To further stimulate discussion, a 20-minute TED Talk by Sherry Turkle will also be shown: http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_ turkle_alone_together. Light refreshments will be served.